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槍

qiāng

gun, spear

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 倉 represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

倉 sound component

倉  Sound component

cāng

  

granary

Evolution

槍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
槍 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
槍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

枪 (槍) 

qiāng

spear, lance; gun, rifle; gun; firearm; rifle; spear; thing with shape or function similar to a gun; CL:支[zhī],把[bǎ],桿|杆[gǎn],條|条[tiáo],枝[zhī]; to substitute for another person in a test; to knock; classifier for rifle shots

枪 (槍) 

Qiāng

surname Qiang

Most common words with 槍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

枪

gun

开枪

to open fire

手枪

pistol

枪击

to shoot with a gun

枪支

a gun

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 53.7242% of movies

336th most common character in movies

874th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

枪

Unicode

U+69CD

Shuowen

“槍，歫也。从木，倉聲。一曰槍欀也。”


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